The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade (or Marat Sade) (play) – Read by Dan Rogers, Associate Professor of Theatre/Speech

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (non-fiction) by John Behrendt – Marlene Anderson, Director of Library Services, gave a recap of a recent (2009) challenge to this book at the Beulah (North Dakota) High School Library

Banned Books Week continues to uphold “one of the world’s greatest visions of the the right to free expression — the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.” This amendment was characterized by Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. as “freedom for the thought that we hate.”

Celebrate your right to read!

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” — Joseph Brodsky